Sentences with phrase «of loss of capacity»

In the range between, there may be varying levels of loss of capacity which depend not merely on the amount of alcohol consumed but on such factors as the age, sex and experience in alcohol of the consumer and even the circumstances in which the substance is being ingested.

[19] While in many cases the actual lost income will be the most reliable measure of the value of the loss of capacity to earn income, this is not necessarily so.

Not exact matches

According to Morgan & Morgan, the jury decided to award Mogavero «$ 85,000 for pain and suffering, physical impairment, disfigurement, inconvenience, and loss of capacity for enjoyment of life, and about $ 15,000 for the medical bills she had in connection with her life - altering injury.»

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

But the best investors understand their time horizon, financial capacity for losses, and emotional tolerance for market ups and downs, and they maintain an allocation of stocks they can live with in good markets and bad.

An investment is appropriate only for investors who have the capacity to absorb a loss of some or all of their investment.

Disrupted refining capacity along the Gulf Coast, along with the impact on millions of motorists, took a large bite out of oil demand, leading to temporary losses for WTI.

The actual increase in capacity that occurs over this period will also be affected by cancellations of some planned projects, the addition of new projects that are in preliminary stages of planning or not yet planned, and most importantly, on the loss of some existing capacity from closures owing to low profitability or depletion of resources.

Until the loss of Flight 370, the airline was on course to continue a rapid expansion of capacity in both its domestic and regional networks this year, after a record 29 percent annual increase in passenger traffic in 2013.

It's well known, for example, that banks would choose to have too little capacity to absorb losses — too little equity capital — because their current shareholders don't bear the full economic costs of their failure or distress.

George Steiner describes this spiritual malaise as a «core - tiredness,» the loss of «our capacity to hope, to truly speak in the future tense.»

Only when reason's interest in reason was hidden from the process of reasoning did the dichotomy occur, with the consequent loss of reason's unity with experience and its capacity to enhance individuation.

Only one chapter is explicitly theological, dealing with Life, based on the Whiteheadian understanding of God, exploring what enables the development of life, its increased complexity and capacity for intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness of experience through the lure of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding acceptance of all experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss of immediacy.

Fifteen percent of the drugs entering this country are being confiscated, but «for the drug cartels, whose production capacities stagger the imagination, a 15 percent loss rate is more than acceptable.»

Nothing would be accomplished by recommending that a school disassociate itself from the disciplines, except loss of capacities for rigorous self - criticism in inquiry.

Kuzu's capacity to regulate estrogen levels in mammals was demonstrated at the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo, Japan, where tests showed that kuzu could prevent the bone loss induced by estrogen deficiency.

«While we regret these job losses, during the last year significant new butter and powder capacity has come on stream, which has made it increasingly difficult to source the required level of milk at a commercially realistic price.

«The key benefits of organic - based fertilisers are that they contain a readily available nutrient supply; they result in better nutrient utilisation; they stimulate soil micro-organisms, they reduce nutrient losses into the environment; they buffer the acidifying effect due to compost; they increase Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) of soils, and they contain naturally chelated trace elements within humus», says Paul Baguely, PG Ag Consulting.

To continue building my capacity in the field of plant pathology so I can provide farmers with practical scientific solutions to reducing in - crop and post-harvest losses, thereby contributing to sustainable food production, increased financial stability and food security.

Much of the discussion of food loss and waste has been predicated on this assumption, with the related conclusion that better management and distribution of existing supplies could substitute for investment in increased productive capacity.

The position of the major supermarket chains, particularly Coles and Woolworths, is such that there is a very significant constraint on the capacity of independent retailers to increase price or decrease other services without the likely loss of business.

Ausveg rightly says that the loss of this capacity and with it many growers is a real threat to our food security.

The loss of fertile top soil by erosion results in a lower yield capacity on the onehand and in a undesired transfer of nutrients, pesticides and sediments in surface water on the other.

I don't get how the loss of a roster spot hurts them when in 4 of the 5 games, that roster spot would have been used on a player who was 99 % unlikely to appear in the game in any capacity and the 5th, depending on the way the schedule shakes out for them, can be fairly easily worked around by shuffling the rotation order..

In 2002, the American Law Institute, an influential group of lawyers, judges, and law professors, recommended that divorce law be changed to compensate caregivers for a «loss in earning capacity.»

Such a loss of intellectual capacity too is an incalculable loss to national potential.

When dealing with parental loss, one logical connection with psychoanalytic theory is that disruption of parent - child bonds or dysfunctional relationships would lead to future impairments in the individual's capacity to develop relationships (Furukawa, Yokouchhi, Hirai, Kitamura, & Takahashi, 1999).

As I have worked with children over the years, I have seen the diminished capacity for true play and a loss of the sense of wonder in their world as children are groomed to be consumers rather than citizens.

At the same time these agencies are telling us all about the internet going dark and «loss of capacity».

The lack of natural gas supply capacity has been repeatedly cited as an obstacle to economic growth in the Southern Tier — which has lost a net 12,800 jobs in the past 15 years, with big, ongoing losses in the Binghamton and Elmira metro areas outweighing gains in Ithaca.

«Looking ahead, the economy is expected to grow modestly, but with current policy settings the pace will be insufficient to absorb significant slack in the economy, raising the risk of a permanent loss of productive capacity.»

Among the overall concerns are proposals the Assembly Democrats say would place new caps on impairment limits, a reducing of what's considered the normal range of motion for extremities, adding earning capacity as a factor in determining the extent in which an injured worker suffered a loss, and limiting what evidence claimants can present to the board.

According to the cardinal rules of designing and operating power grids, the system should always have enough spare capacity to sustain the loss of any single element, even one as big as the Southwest Powerlink.

New reservoirs could not be built fast enough to offset the loss of snow storage — and we don't have a lot of capacity left for that kind of storage.

«We see an accelerating decline in coastal species over the last 1,000 years, resulting in the loss of biological filter capacity, nursery habitats and healthy fisheries,» notes team member Heike Latze, also of Dalhousie.

«Our results suggest that intentional body weight loss by diet manipulation does not provide any beneficial effects on colon tumorigenesis and it may in fact aggravate liver capacity of repair.»

Another major advance in lithium - ion batteries is reported in the Nature Communications paper, «Mitigating oxygen loss to improve the cycling performance of high capacity cation - disordered cathode materials,» which shows that disordered materials can be fluorinated, unlike other battery materials.

He added that climate models project that the southern area of Brazil will see more rain, which could increase the existing hydropower capacity and help offset losses in the north.

It also represented a loss of capacity for the project.

«A hallmark of IVD degenerative disease is its poor self - repair capacity secondary to the loss of IVD cells.

In «Tragic end for Puerto Rico site,» he reported on a NEON site in Puerto Rico that «was undone by a human tragedy [but also] represented a loss of capacity for the project.»

But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.

«This finding could change the way we look at phase transformations within the cathode and the resulting loss of capacity in this class of material,» said Alpesh Khushalchand Shukla, a scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, and lead author of the study.

«Here you have a vertebrate turtle that shows no increasein mortality and no loss of reproductive capacity at ages wheremammals, including humans, will shut down totally.»

Yet the loss of this complex has not dramatically affected the capacity of the plant to produce energy.

Research scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say that at least 40 percent of children with a hearing loss have the capacity for higher language levels — beyond what test scores indicate.

In theory, lithium - sulphur batteries can deliver considerably more energy than today's conventional lithium - ion batteries, but current prototypes show a distinct loss of capacity after just a few charging cycles.

And they observed for the first time how ordinary quartz powder — the principal constituent of sand and the main ingredient of glass — improves the lithium - sulphur battery: added to the liquid component of the battery, it increases the available energy and curbs the capacity loss that sets in over time.

«The common way that the term «drugged» is used suggests lethargy and loss of capacity,» Cabrera said.

Our data demonstrate that loss of IL - 15Rα results in a remodeling of fast skeletal muscles to a more oxidative phenotype that manifests as a greater exercise capacity and resistance to fatigue in mice due, in part, to adaptations in mitochondria — phenotypes that were only observed in IL - 15Rα — KO mice.